Contents in Medium are widely different, even within the same topic. I look through four articles, all by different authors, all on the topic of Magic the Gathering, a Trading Card Game.
The first article I read was about how players take breaks in Magic, coming back time after time. It is more of a reflection piece about the journey and such.
The second article talked about MTG’s color wheel design and the psychology behind each color. The article was very informed and gave extensive research in how individual color, as well as the each color pairing with examples from other media.
The third article went into how the author got into the game and what he learned from it. He talked about it becoming a family tradition against one of his family members whenever they get-together, that it de-stressed after his office job, and created a side-job of trading cards internationally. Overall this was an reflection piece.
The fourth and last article was a mixed between reflection and explanation. Overall, each article had it own way of explaining magic, either be self-reflection and own experience or tying it together with other topic. The reason I choose this topic is that I play the card game and enjoy it every time I play with friends. We would go to midnight releases of magic sets and stay up till 5am every time till we either won the prize or don’t. Either way they are fun.
Now for the website Medium Review.
Medium is a blogging website, where people can publish works with tags to indicate what category it belongs to. The tags themselves are weird, with two of them being “Human Parts” and “Cannabis”. The overall system looks similar to other websites like Huffington Post and Variety , with the design and lay out.
The articles within each topic are widely diverse with some review a game to making a top ten list to analyzing the game, a lot of people write about different things. In addition, people can follow the authors of said articles if they enjoy the content or voice they present. The website does have a downside of payment, but makes sense since some of it is paying the workers behind the website.
Overall, the website is very streamline and polished. It is easy to navigate and user friendly. The articles that people post are diverse to find new voices and ideas, in addition to following them. Not a bad website.
Links
https://medium.com/s/story/the-mtg-color-wheel-c9700a7cf36d
https://medium.com/@blankenship/5%C2%BD-things-i-ve-learned-from-playing-magic-the-gathering-for-5%C2%BD-months-43b82bc63945
https://medium.com/words-of-tomorrow/the-magic-of-magic-the-gathering-f9f2f993d517
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